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  TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes)  recently took part in this live event  in Minneapolis organized by the Palestine Festival of Literature and Mizna. This episode features selections from the different presentations. Follow the link below to watch the entire event. "Join the Palestine Festival of Literature  and Mizna  for a powerful evening of performance and thought-provoking discussio...

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Comrades Justine, Melanie, Nick, Demetrius, and newcomer to the podcast Tåddong Gogue do a deep dive into some of the big stories of 2024. **Producer's note: Our recording software, Podcastle, lost D's track. We apologize to D and to our listeners for this. We promise to have him back on soon** This is only a portion of the conversation. Subscribe to Red Media on Patreon to listen to the  full epi...

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Sydney Freeland's Rez Ball (2024) . Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/   The Red Nation Podcast is produced by  Red Media  and is sustained by comrades...

The Red Nation attended this year's 55th annual National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1970, Indigenous people and organizations of New England and the American Indian Movement protested at the settler colonial monuments of the Mayflower 2 and Plymouth Rock, disrupting and disproving the myth of so-called Thanksgiving and providing a counter-narrative that cuts the myths of coloni...

TRN Podcast host and producer Justine Teba is joined by her fellow producer Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)  for a discussion about five years of producing The Red Nation Podcast! Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower  Red Media  this  Native American Heritage Month ! Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media....

Gabriel Rockhill  (@GabrielRockhill) is the Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is the editor of the first English translation of Domenico Losurdo's  Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn (2017) , a critical analysis of the key role that left-wing intellectuals have historically played in the imperial core u...

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of The Red Nation Podcast.  You can listen to this episode by signing up for as little as $2 a month or watch it for free on our YouTube channel*  TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes)  dissects the 2024 US Presidential elections and what they portend for future struggles against US settler colonialism at home and imperialism around the world. Wat...

Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle)  joins the show to talk about  her recently released book,   By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (2024) . The book is a centuries-long history and legal thriller, documenting the lead-up to the landmark McGirt Supreme Court decision. Empower Red Media this Native American Heritage Month! Our podcast is a coll...

Vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and Minnesota governor Tim Walz stopped in Window Rock, AZ where snipers lined the monument and three Diné citizens were brutalized by his staffers during the Harris/Walz campaign stop. Navajo Nation president Buu Nygren announced the public event the day before, 10 days before the general election.  While standing in the crowd, a Diné woman was...

Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous People. Today is the official launch of our GoFundMe campaign  to support our operational costs. Please consider empowering Red Media's work. Y...

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by Liza Black (Cherokee) to discuss Taylor Sheridan's lucrative career peddling racist settler fantasies. Check out Liza's article,  "On 'Yellowstone,' and the white desire to control the narrative"  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of T...

Indigenous for Palestine  asked some of our comrades to reflect on what they had learned witnessing the Zionist genocide fuelled by US support, and Palestinian resistance in Gaza and beyond. These are their reflections. Contributions "Pae ʻĀina—Wide: P.L.O. Style" Kauwila Mahi https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/pae-%ca%bbaina-wide-p-l-o-style/ Settler "Self-Defense" and Native Liberatio...

The Red Nation marks Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 with an online discussion moderated by Red Power Hour's Melanie Yazzie Speakers: Vivi Camacho ( @.luzfloreciendo ) Mohammed El-Kurd / @mohammedelkurd Monaeka Flores / @monaekaflores & Nick Estes / @nickwestes Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Next month is the 10th year anniversary of The Red Nation. The Red Nation i...

TRIGGER WARNING: sexual assault September 30, 2024 – Parents of youth attending Tuba City Boarding School organized a community gathering and rally outside the Navajo Police Department to demand justice and answers. Every Child Matters –  Community Rally in Tuba City, AZ September 30, 2 024 – Parents of youth attending Tuba City Boarding School organized a community gathering and rally outside the...

[Producer's note: This is the first half of a two-part episode! The second half will be released on the Patreon feed early access and on the main feed/YouTube channel next week! Sign up at the link below for as little as $2 a month to get access to other great bonus content and help support Red Media]   Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz take on Michael Mann's 1992 big...

In 1974, three Navajo men--John Earl Harvey, Herman Dodge Benally, and David Ignacio--were brutally beaten and murdered by white teenage settlers in the bordertown of Farmington, New Mexico. It was an act known as "Indian rolling." Diné grassroots leaders rose to this injustice by creating the Coalition for Navajo Liberation and the long hot summer of 1974 ensued. The marches and boycotts against...

Federal prosecutors have attempted to tie Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier to the murder of fellow AIM activist, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. It is a frequent allegation that has relied on weak evidence and the charges of paid federal informants. In this episode, TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) looks at several sources of information from key Indigenous activists who knew Leon...

TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes ( @nickwestes ) speaks at  May Day Books marking the paperback publication of Our History is the Future   by Haymarket Books.   Recorded by Adam Biel.  The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:  www.patreon.com/redmediapr

TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes ( @nickwestes) helms a solo episode on the absurd farce of the Democratic National Convention and the wider question of how to read the 2024 US presidential elections from a critical left anti-imperialist perspective. Watch the  video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel  The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our...

Justine and another comrade debrief the 2nd. Encounter for a World Social Alternative: From Bolívar to Chávez. At the time of recording, they had just wrapped up the two-day event and had yet to witness the Venezuelan presidential elections later that week. Their initial reactions to the two-day panel series lay out the context of the Venezuelan elections, why the country is in the crosshairs of n...

The Little Earthers podcasters sat down with elders and residents of Little Earth United Tribes. Vinny Dionne (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), Jolene Jones (White Earth, Lac Courte Oreilles), Crow Bellecourt (Bad River) and Lori Ellis (White Earth) share their experiences living in the only American Indian preference low-income urban housing project. The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and...

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz do a deep dive into the ideological underpinnings of the  Planet of the Apes prequels. Watch the  video edition  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:  www.patreon.com/redmediapr  

This episode covers the radical history of the Twin Cities, which evolved in a unique and dynamic historical conjuncture in the long 1960s as a site in which African American, American Indian and Mexican American communities were concentrated in an otherwise overwhelmingly white state. The emergence of Black Power, the American Indian Movement, and the Chicano Movement parallel and overlapping in...

Justine Teba and another comrade traveled to Venezuela to observe the 2024 Presidential Elections. In this episode, they discuss the elements that constitute the electoral system and the importance of autonomy in Venezuela's National Electoral Council. This episode was recorded just as Maduro's campaign--titled "Our 21st Century Venezuela"--was coming to an end. Dozens of avenues were flooded by h...